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To: RetiredNow who wrote (1220393)	4/14/2020 2:37:57 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1579680

Mindmeld, But I think the probability is very high we will all look back at the economic wreckage and we'll understand that it was not worth it. That'll be an exercise in second-guessing that will never end. For sure, it'll hinge on the number of deaths that we find to be "acceptable" in a free society like ours. Currently the death toll stands at 25,136. Who knows what could have been had we did nothing? Maybe we could have reached the 240K death toll estimate that Trump made two weeks ago (which of course the media hypocritically criticized as "OMG too high"). Would 240K deaths be acceptable in a population of 328M? Unlikely. We went to war with two nations because 3,000 people died on September 11, 2001. The total number of American deaths in Vietnam was 58,000. Even the total number of American deaths in WWII was "just" half a million. As for the shredding of constitutional rights such as the right to privacy, well, I'll save that for another day. Tenchusatsu

To: RetiredNow who wrote (1220393)	4/14/2020 2:39:23 PM
From: Jamie153	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1579680

What's left of the US? Serious. Tell me. Our businesses depend on slave labor at home and abroad. Without a declining middle class the rich would have to go to work for the first time in their god awful lies. We have to borrow trillions from the Treasury to create the illusion of economic growth. We use slave labor in poor countries to make iPhone, Christmas trees, and Nike shoes. Capitalism is dead. We had a deficit of around $1.6 trillion before the pandemic so we can blame less than half on the pandemic. We went into an economic war with our banker (China). Who's that dumb? Our farmers need subsidies to survive but we have meat packing plants closing while farmers destroy crops. Milk producers are throwing away milk. Where in the hell do you see any sort of leadership in this government? Shouldn't we be preparing for a massive food shortage instead of plowing under crops and throwing away milk?